//uk can no longer have free trade with the rest of Europe, making our products more expensive as the import duties into the eu are 20%.//
https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/countries-and-regions/united-kingdom_en
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement consists of:
a Free Trade Agreement, with ambitious cooperation on economic, social, environmental and fisheries issues;
a close partnership on citizens’ security, and;
an overarching governance framework.
//Our farmers and hospitality business owners struggle to get workers as the cheap labour from the eu is drying up.//
One of the principle aims of leaving the EU was to wean businesses off the seemingly limitless pool of cheap labour from the EU. It has done nothing but depress earnings in this country and good riddance to it.
// Some fresh fruit and veggies grown in the eu are sometimes less available the. They used to be.//
Are they? Have you any examples?
// Uk citizens can no longer get jobs in the eu without getting the equivalent of a green card//
What a chore. As retro explains, if you're intelligent enough to seek work abroad, you should be intelligent enough to fill in a few forms.
//…the boats landing on our shores with illegal immigrants,
What on Earth has that to do with membership (or not) of the EU?
//…. under funding of the NHS and dentistry.//
Ditto.
//The £350 million for the NHS promised by the blonde bombshell never materialised -none of it.//
Did it not?
//The funny thing is that since the bus we are actually spending a lot more than £350m extra on the NHS!//
Indeed. Department of Health and Social Care spending (Real terms in 2022/23 prices):-
2015=16: £141.1bn
2023-24: £182.0bn
Source: The Kings Fund:
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget
Difference: £40.9bn (£786m per week)
I’m not sure anything was “promised”, but certainly something has materialised.